What does it mean that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit?
Paul teaches that the believer's body is the temple or dwelling place of the Holy Spirit, who is in you and whom you have from God. This indwelling is a gift, not purchased with money, because you were bought with the blood of Christ; therefore, glorify God in your body.
Les explains that in 1 Corinthians 6:19 Paul asks, 'Don't you know that your body, this body we're living in right now today, is the temple or dwelling place of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have of God?' The Holy Spirit is not something you buy. Simon in Samaria tried to buy the gift and power of the Holy Spirit, and Peter said, 'Your money perish with you.' So the Holy Spirit is a gift of God now in us, and we are not our own. It isn't because we deserved or earned it. Verse 20 says we are bought with a price—not our money or anything we have, but with the blood of Christ, as Peter puts it in his epistle. Therefore, glorify God in your body, because the body is the dwelling of the indwelling Spirit, and all belong to the Creator God Himself. Les then turns to Colossians 3, though the transcript doesn't quote the verse.
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
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